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bessie comes with smiling face,
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II ,blts, bDSolluks sni swsliows,
Give hsr Efc,t tins l0ui All sweet,
Blossoms sc,n u IN thsif secoHds.
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Scsing the yoapg lady pass.
CiARiss, n.
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WHEREAS. XIII. n. Fisge. of hssioo. ~ his
mortgage deed. dated Nov. H. lsss, and recorded IN
Oxfbfd Registry Of Deeds Book soi. page rs. coz.
esisfs, sifasied IN Mexie. IN The Ceuny 81 Onfcrd.
and bounded k1i dsssrt<d - liovs. 10 III IL BENG
his homestead hrm. ccntzining seventy flv) acfts
Adsis<rt Essinsn iss coos1lnlse cas kasdred Cieol
ses more or lsss and whereas. the condition Of ssid
mortgage has bssn brcken, nov thersfsre By ressoa
q he brssch of the contitioa thereof. claim fre
WIN. BLANCHARD.
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Sine the visit ofQa,en Ksplolsri the
sandwich meu on Bosion Common have
been taking on . deal OF airs.
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Paris vtihla aad 90 ne Cosav u osfyfi
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estate - rsfah n. hisAsr. ists ~ tIaftfsfd
acrouut q aimialstfsil1s "a ~ estate - as
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order 10 - published thfte weeks ssfrsssifsll u
ths Oaford nrmccfat. snr-syslFf pfiatri al TAI
ls. hal thff MAJ arTssr az ffut.ie tonu - -
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dsy 81 Jaee nstL FL uIns o'ciosk 10 tts ioreaooa
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OXFORD, sst-AtA Ceat "a rfotse hslf 81
faris. vltsln aai fof ihe CouniI % Osfyfi, 90
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n al psfsots interested. b. csasias seogT 81
me order - - patllshesi hres -ests sscse.siss
b. IN ne ONFOHD nNsOcAAt, rfintsi Al fArs
that thry msy agT~sf 81 q froosis tour % D
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dsy ~ June nest. 81 tiee 81 ne fioss In ths
furtnoon, anf shos rAuss, N any thef hsFes NhI
ne sail lnsuument .hoaf net >. prCyei. az
prvtef ani sno~ei a. TIE last Wall eel tSsfa
meat Of sAd decsasef
srO. A. wIi.sOs jsixe.
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NARRoW cRocurr IAcH.

Take doe rickrsck braid. No. co white
thread and o doe steel crochet hook. 0ae
single crochet into frst point, three chain.
one single crochet into next point, and
three chain; repeat TO end OF braid. This
makes the nrst row. Turn, one double
crochet into center fast chain, one chain,
one double crochet into same chain OF
three; repeat until you have six double
crochets In the same place with one chain
between each double crochet This forms
one scsllop. One single crochet into neat
chain Of three, and then repeat the scsllop
In nett chain NJ three. Finish the upper
edge Of braid the same % nrst row.
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cuAKLOrTE MUSE
IagroiisAis.-One pint OF cream,
one vanilla bean.
Half . pound OF sugar.
Ten eggs.
Three quarters OF an ounce
OF i.lnglsss.
one wine glsssfal OF bran
dy.
one pint OF milk,
Sponge caie.
Take the islnglass and vanilla bean aud
boil them 10 the milk until well dissolved.
Then separate the whites and yolks OF the
eggs; adj the sugar % the yolks, and
osa, until very light; then add 10 them The
brandy. whisk the cream In asepsrsie
dish, and add that and the isinglsss 10 the
yolks, mixing well together and set 10
cool. Beat the whites Ia suf froth +;
aud when the yolts begin 10 s,lfsn, STIR
them In, mix we'll and pour Toto . dish
lined with sponge cake, OF lady hngefs !
let Il stand one hour 10 set
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faus -lihlu AL iof ne Countf ~ Osioff.
90 ne third Iussfay 81 Msy. A. n i-i.
SIMHOS nRisos. Fsseetf On he sstsie %
Isihsr hsisou. lste ~ nuslasid. ia sst tossiy
sf.inst ne estate u .sti t.esssf o. alps
ates
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% al psfsous intsfssist ~ eassias eop
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2 This ~vrd. with = small wOri placed
b. fore ~. IL said ~ b. some womtns
strongest rsp'y 10 an srgum-nt
> What We al wish "a 81 sfl'r a hard
day WORK.
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In lot wy particular ahoai NY
COTE. tat cop ofrich Mpch, raihsf
pfs',r
3 Ijs.i me; hlsaf-iysd m,n ca ih.
street, ~ho Is eslisntiy addicted IN TIE
ase ~ stfung dnrk
s. You eau by nr,t class goods oi I.
J. Tempe ca A l. lIlisioa Alec tsrps
Zoe lice 20 guots
4. To. name % he y0uug lady who
just called. d. Lou y Grfrsh.
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pocket with cambria. hfscksi ~oa'd
look well on ne 0fposiic val
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WORKING CLASSESAIIEHIIo!nl

parsi o. furnish ell classes With empioJmsnt Al
h me the whole 81 the time, % fOf their slafs
moments. nasinfss new, light ani prchiAnt.
Pefsoas % elmer zen easily earn frem y eetf'
10 o. ' psr evening, AMI proportlOnsl slm p!
dev0tins al their tine 70 the business. BOYS al
sifls earn neafly A much AZ men rha All 80
zee this mar ssni their aftress and tfst ne bls
nsss. we maize thls 0fsr. To such A. are not ssll
ssfshef we sili seni dollar " psF Zoe NJ US
bic % wrtins. fuiiyntiesiArs All outfi tree A.
dress SHOH0H sTIssOs a co Portland, hsiee'
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.HIIsaygEss;, .. ROOT BEER.

rssl.ge, ~ cents. mst.ss s.iisns Of a lie
iklsss. stsIklins. ifmpsfaree h.otgs.
stsssgthsss SD pashss shs ""ea ie
ps,ifV All delieasy coamsei 10 al. soli ~
al dTsssist. snd stoukssf1''
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OXFORD. a. -Ata Cosit a ~, bate hs'i Al
rna stihiu sd GO ne Cosnu ~ ottoI 4 20
III tIird lee asy Of MAJ a. ifsi
WILLIAM NtDltrtM. Admiasu atai
- tns rststs q nansl usi. lst
Of Tuu. In eel tous'y. dsessssd hatiss
Ift.saisl "a aocaust a AIN lnistfa'tru q ths
est "a of ssh deceased 80 florsncs
uftsfst. That the ssh Atmiaistfstff stfe -
Ues 10 an tsfsous fabricated, ~ eauslng q cipj
10 thn oftsf ~ d Iubishsd lkrs rests suesss
sts " in ~ Oxfufd tSocsfaf. Ifistsi 81 fsfls
nat ne, may aTtssfat rruosts teat o. =
bald 81 fafis. is ssh CoantI, "a tts thiri Isss
dsy ~ Juns nsxf. 81 ttas esiesk Ia ihs tlf-
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OXFORD. sat Court e riotaie hsi a.
fafit. withln ant Coz re Cant ~ psf1ri,
90 tbs thHd TO- ssay % Ma. i~s.
aABEl. " Iuohffu> ~hfss 81 ssssl
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ordered. That the said Istiisoef fi'. neties
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OXFORD, .s-At Coau ~ Probate hsld 81
Paris. within and boz the couuty Of Osfotd
90 ths TART Tss-asF ~ Nay. .. II. lssf.
ErnECCA Known. ~iisw q Mills ~
Rrown, lsie OF Bsthsl. dsessssd. hayins
irvssutsd her I<titioa tor en- slisvHef oaiofths
Istsoaal estate % ssif dscsssefi
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tiss 10 all rsrsous iutsrestsd By ssssihf copy
a this orer 10 n. yabushef three sestssae 5ssits
ly Ia the Osford Dsmoerst nssslspef printed
al rafis. in said Cooniy. that ths1 MY sugar 81
PTobsts Coaf 90 D. held 81 Parts. "a ne thifd
Tussdsy ol June usht ~ oeloft IN the lore
noon ssd shaw sasss. ~ any thu tss', sssiasi
GIO. A. WILSON ,jsixe
A t,ss cent Attest n q. usels Hsgistst.
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OUR PUZZLE CORNER.

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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
THEY HAD NO FRIENDS THERE.

l notice that one of the Presbyterian
weeklies published in Philadelphia,
protests against the prominence given
to Cardinal Gibbons at the Constitu-
tional Centennial in that city, and one
of our own journals remarked upon the
hot haste with which President Cleve-
land, on the night of his arrival in the
Quaker City, went to the reception
given by the President to the Prince of
the Church. 1t reminds me of a hu-
morous "reminiscences in the same line.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
died on the 4th of July, 1926, fifty years
after they had affixed their signatures
to the Declaration of Independence,
and their obsequies were celebrated
with geeat eclat at the Capitol in Wash
ingtOn. Invitations were issued to the
leading divines of all denominations,
and among the rest were the Catholic
archbishop Of Baltimore (Dr. Eccles-
ton, think, who succeeded DR.. Carroll)
and the Rev. DR.. Balch, Of Charlestown,
Va, an eminent divine of the Presby-
terrain church. The latter was invited
to make what was then known as "the
long prayer" Now, the good doctor
was accustomed to reel off the same
prayer every Sunday, and at one place
he always said "That it may please
Thee to root out of the earth whatso-
ever worketh lie, and especially to
subvert and confound the Pope of Rome
and all his adherents." Another habit
which he had was that of opening and
closing his eyes as he was praying. On
this occasion DR.. Balch was in good
voice, and went along praying with
great fervor until he reached the vicin-
ity Of the particular petition against the
Pope, when, as he opened his eyes, he
CHANGED to see the archbishop and his
staff, in the full splendor of their Off
cial robes, sitting in corner Of the
crowded chamber Of the House of Rep
resentatives, in which the sessions were
being held. The minister was appalled,
and for a moment dazed. But there
was no chance to put on the brakes.
He went ahead with his prayer "That
it may please Thee to root out of the
earth whatsoever worketh lie, and
especially to subvert and confound the
-the'-there was moments hesita-
ton, and then he blurted out to the
amazement Of all PRESENT. Hot
tentots." Doctor" said a friend of
his later in the day, "what made you
single out the Hottentots as the special
objects of your wrath ?" The preacher
glared at him for a minute and replied
II knew they hadn't any friends there
at any rate. "-PhiLadelphia Record.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
A VISIT TO STARR KINGS CHURCH
IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Rev. George H. Deere, of Riverside,
CAL, recently visited San Francisco,
and in the following letter to his home
paper, gives an interesting account of a
visit to the church where Rev. Thomas
Starr King preached during his wonder
full ministry in San Francisco:
My first walk in the streets of San
Francisco was from the Palace Hotel
in July, 1881. My mind was full of
memories and thoughts of Thomas
Starr King. Years before, in New
England, acquaintance with him had
ripened into friendship, and my esteem
had been enthusiastic and reverential.
His brief and brilliant California career
had excited my warmest admiration,
and when his life went out, consumed
by the fires of his patriotism, was one
of the multitude bowed by the wave of
sorrow that swept from sea to sea.
Strolling along aimlessly, came in
front of brown, gothic church, with
ivy grown midway to the roof. On the
left, a lawn sheltered by the church,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
A DEAD DOCTRINE.

This doctrine of the damnation of
the heather is dead. 1t has ceased to
be believed in any living sense. People
may talk it, but they do not realize
what it means to believe it. Why, it is
doctrine which, if those who vote to
maintain it had the slightest real sense
of what it means, would cast gloom
and shadow over life. What kindly
Christian heart that really thought of
all that vast ancient world-Egypt, As
syria, Greece, India and China-and all
the teeming myriads of the past-all the
children of the living God-could think
for a moment of their being all in hell,
without a sinking of the soul and
doubt whether the whole idea must not
be a dreadful dream ? Think of the
lofty minds and heroic lives that rose
up here and there like mountain peaks
along those far-off centuries, so lofty
and noble that even yet across the i'm
measurable years they stand out, visi-
bic personalities, ZOroaster and Buddha,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
THE MINISTER'S WIFE.

1t is grand thing to be minister
a good minister, one who aims at max
ing the world better by his preaching
and his example. Whether brilliant
or otherwise, the faithful minister has
many rewards to offset the hardships
of his position, and of the latter we have
come to think the ministry has not more
than attaches to many other RESPONSE
BILE stations men are called to occupy.
To thorough ministerial equipment
a good wife is indispensable. Blessed
is the man in any calling who hath a
good wife. Doubly blessed is the true
minister who has wife we'll adapted
to him and to his work. Such a woman
can do an invaluable work in connec-
ton with his labors. Noparish should
consider that it calls his wife when it
settles minister. No exacting duties
should be marked out for her. She
should be as free as any in the parish
in these matters. Yet such a woman
will do all that can be reasonably asked
of her. She knows her place in church
work as in home work and in social
duties. Freedom she must have. Then
into her life, as into her husbands,
will come joys the deepest and most
lasting as she sees that she is help
meet at home and in all the work nat
urally devolving upon him whose sue
cess and happiness are her own.
Although somewhat overdrawn in its
colOrs, the following from writer in
the Religious Herald, portrays the posi-
ton and responsibilities of ministers
wives as held by some. There should
be everywhere a modification of ideas
on this subject, of so much consequence
to the welfare of religious societies
1.-The position of minister is diff
cult one to fill. But that of minister's
wife is much more so. She is expected
to be a model of piety, the pink of in
telligence, the picture of health, the
paragon of housskeepers, and the pat
tern of mothers. She must always be
at church whenever the bell rings
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must have her children at Sunday
school every time and on time, and
must herself teach class in it. She
must be a member of the Ladies' Mis-
sionary Society, Secretary of the. Dor
cas- Society, and attend all their meet
ings.
"At home, she must be cook, house
servant, nurse, seamstress, and doz-
en- other things combined, including
that of Il snuensis, to copy her hus-
bands sermons. She must always be
going-to visit the sisters, to carry del
icacies to the sick, and must not neg
lect the poor, while at the same time
she must never be out when any one
calls. She must keep up the style of a
lady on the salary of day-laborer.
She must never have neuralgia or the
headache, must never be tired or sleepy,
and must be the cheerful drudge Of
every one. She must be pleased with
everybody and everything, and the only
reward she must expect is the satisfac-
ton of knowing that she has done her
own duty and other peoples too.
"The minister may receive praise. She
should thank her stars If she escapes
without any blame. He can talk back
If censured. No privilege is hers-ex-
cept at home. Do you know such a
woman? 1 don't. If one ever gets to
be such. l think she ought to die right
then. She will be better fitted for
heaven than for earth. Or, rather, 1
think she will be dead and in heaven
before she reaches this state. And yet
l know many minister's wife in this
land of ours who is trying her best to
fulfil these duties, and L want now to
pay the tribute of my admiration for
her.
"The minister's wife, God bless her
Toiling, shaving, self-sacrifcing, pa
tient, accomplishing, cheerful, pious,
sensible, loving; she deserves crown
oftentimes even brighter than that of
her husband, for whose sake she has
lived on and labored on SO long. And
though her work be done in silence
and the world neither see it nor reward
it, yet it shall be public to him that
seeth in secret, and he that seeth in
secret shall reward her openly. Cos
pei Banner.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
AN AMERICAN ROMAN CATH
OLIC UNIVERSITY.

The project of great Roman Cath
olic University in Washington, requir-
ing a sum of SIS 10000 to build it and
place it upon proper basis, is signifi-
cant mainly as a scheme of religious
proselytism, not as promise of greater
stimulus and ampler means for liberal
study or sound and comprehensive schol-
arship. In a brief approving the uni
versity Pope Leo says:
"The unlimited license of thought
and of writing to which such erroneous
notions concerning both divine and hui
man things have given rise, not only in
Europe, but also in your country, has
been the root and source of unbridled
opinions; while on the other hand, with
religion banished to great extent from
the schools, wicked men audaciously
strive by the craft of fallacious wisdom
to extinguish the light of faith in the
minds of the young, and to enkindle
therein the flames of irreligion. Where
fore it is necessary that youth be nour-
ished more carefully with sound doc
trine, and that those young men es-
pecially who are being educated for the
church should be fully armed to fit them
for the task of defending Catholic
truth"
Such view is fatal to the true pur-
pose of university, which is necessa-
rily not Catholic, nor Protestant, nor
sectarian in any way, but whose object
is truth and knowledge as its minister.
All knowledge is its province, not to
serve any predetermined conclusion,
but to train the human mind to explore
the painless realms of higher intelli-
gence. A school which is designed to
train men to defend certain religious
dogmas may be very useful and desir-
able institution, and may graduate very
accomplished casuists and dialecticians.
But it is in no proper sense university.
For a certain thoroughness of drill and
discipline in study the Catholic schools
are often excellent. But in the degree
in which the ecclesiastical purpose be-
comes more pronounced their value as
schools of education declines.
The Pope's condemnation of the
American common schools as irrelig-
ious because they teach no denomina-
tional religious doctrine is based upon
totally unsound view of the common
school. There could be no greater mis-
fortune than the separation of Amer
lean children into sectarian schools, the
primary object of which should be their
sectarian training in religion. Instead
of community in which religious
freedom assures peace and order, there
would be state in which religious diff
ferences were intensified and embit-
tered into a constant menace Of the
general good understanding. No intel
ligent man could suppose that great
Roman Catholic University in Wash
ingtOn would be school of true Amer
lean citizenship, or feeling, or purpose,
as he could not believe that the assault
upon our common schools as goddess
is made in the interest of American
liberty and progress, and not in that of
the Roman hierarchy.-Harper's Weekly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
JOHN RANDOLPH AND RE-
TVHInAy

John Randolph, Randolph of Roa-
noke" as he called himself, and liked to be
called, was early impressed with religious
truth by a faithful Christian mother, of
whom he himself tells us, 'that at one
time he might have become French in
fidel but for the memory of his mothers
hand upon his head, as he knelt at her
side, to repeat after her the Lords Pray
err" He was always outspoken in favor
OF religion, and especially so toward the
latter years of his life, as illustrations of
which the following, among other anec-
dotes, are related:
One day he was at a dinner party in.
Virginia, given to young army officer.
The latter at the table was giving
glowing account of the churches in
Mexico, one of the finest of which
he said had been turned into barracks
by the United States troops as they
entered Mexico under General Scott.
When one of the ladies present ex-
claimed, "Why, Captain, were you not
afraid to do it?" the reply of the young
captain, in somewhat boastful, if not
sneering tone was: ooh, no; for my part
I have become SO used to such things
that could take my dinner on the altar
itself as comfortably as anywhere" sand
30 would hog, sir" said Randolph, look
ing sharply at the officer, while Gin the
silence that followed the terrible rebuke
the very air of the room seemed to Jingle,
as the nerves of the guest did" The Of
icer felt the rebuke and was silent, as
we'll he might be.
Soon after Randolph's recovery from
severe sickness in 1916, he was dining at
the house of prominent politician with
large and mixed company. Among
Them" to use his own words, "was a
hoary-headed debauchee, whose vices had
completely shattered his constitution,
and whose days seemed to be numbered.
Sand yet, said Randolph, she had the au-
dacity to call in question the existence OF
the Deity, presuming, suppose, that
there were many kindred spirits there.
happened to sit directly opposite to him,
and felt so Disguised with his impiety
that I could not help saying: Il think,
sir, that you might better have been ST.
lent Oh that subject, for judging from ap-
pearances, you, in short time, will have
ocular proof of the power of that God
whose existence you now so boldly ques-
ton. You can afford to wait, sir, the few
remaining days of your life, and in COM
mon courtesy you should not shock the
feelings of others by the exhibition Of
your blasphemyP He turned pale with
anger" adds Randolph, "and even trem-
bled; but made no rejoinder, and the
company soon separated. We met more
than once subsequently, but never after
ward renewed our acquaintance, and
whether his courage to brave death con-
tinued or not, do not know"
The incident reminds one OF Shelley,
the poet, who, amid the glorious scenery
of the Alps, and surrounded there by the
sublime manifestations of Gods power,
had the hardihood to avow and record
his atheism by writing against his name
in the register kept for travellers, "An
AtheistP Another traveller who follow